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CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan says he’s taking steps to end harassment or abuse at the statehouse and in his political operation, after a former staff member said party officials were too […]

CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has granted six petitions for clemency and denied 14 others. The Republican’s office announced the clemencies on Friday. The petitions granted were for crimes including retail theft, burglary, […]

TORONTO (AP) — Leo Cahill, the colorful former coach and general manager of the Canadian Football League’s Toronto Argonauts who was born in Utica, died Friday. He was 89. “In the long and colorful history […]

CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has granted six petitions for clemency and denied 14 others. The Republican’s office announced the clemencies Friday. The petitions granted were for crimes including retail theft, burglary and […]

SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Natural Resources is reminding everyone that fishing licenses for 2018 can be renewed starting March 1st. Illinois’ 2018 fishing, hunting, and sportsmen combination licenses will be valid through March […]

PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — Thousands of angry students, parents and residents demanded stricter gun control laws Saturday as new details were revealed about the suspect accused of shooting and killed 17 people in a Florida high school.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — After Tnuza Jamal Hassan was stopped from flying to Afghanistan last September, she allegedly told FBI agents that she wanted to join al-Qaida and marry a fighter, and that she might even wear a suicide belt.